Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 87 85
Rank change year-on-year -15 -2 -32
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,101 1,655 2,086
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.78% 3.33% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 3.74% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,398 784 1,222
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,400 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £91,269 £91,938 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £116,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,403 £70,000 £62,750
% change year-on-year -2.28% +11.55% -7.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,265 44,296 59,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.17% 89.00% 82.18%
Number of salaries quoted 59,107 24,598 32,082
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 9 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -23 1,810 £75,000 - 1,929
UK excluding London -24 1,157 £68,403 -2.28% 897
Work from Home -20 844 £69,310 -0.99% 876
London -18 786 £85,000 +3.03% 1,220
North of England -52 368 £75,000 +7.14% 249
South East +56 314 £65,000 -7.14% 147
North West -61 199 £75,000 +7.14% 133
South West +1 150 £67,500 +10.20% 85
Midlands -58 109 £75,000 +7.14% 102
North East +12 94 £65,000 +49.86% 43
West Midlands -39 79 £80,000 +14.29% 61
Yorkshire -2 75 £69,310 -2.38% 74
Northern Ireland -18 73 £60,000 +33.33% 77
Wales -19 68 £62,000 +19.23% 25
East of England -55 41 £60,100 -5.73% 78
Scotland -41 34 £70,000 -7.89% 135
East Midlands -63 30 £65,000 -7.14% 41
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 41 (1.95%) Confluence
2 27 (1.29%) Apache Spark
3 21 (1.00%) Apache
4 20 (0.95%) CMS
5 15 (0.71%) Camunda
6 10 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 10 (0.48%) IIS
6 10 (0.48%) OpenStack
6 10 (0.48%) WebLogic
7 9 (0.43%) nginx
7 9 (0.43%) WordPress
8 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.33%) Drupal
8 7 (0.33%) JBoss
8 7 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.14%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.14%) Kentico
10 3 (0.14%) Sitefinity
10 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (0.52%) MS Visio
2 9 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.095%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.048%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.24%) Oracle Retail
3 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.048%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.048%) Eikon
4 1 (0.048%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.048%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,088 (51.78%) AWS
2 899 (42.79%) Azure
3 333 (15.85%) GCP
4 291 (13.85%) GitHub
5 263 (12.52%) Serverless
6 202 (9.61%) SaaS
7 180 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
8 139 (6.62%) AWS Lambda
9 134 (6.38%) Amazon EKS
10 128 (6.09%) AWS CloudFormation
11 117 (5.57%) Amazon S3
12 107 (5.09%) GitHub Copilot
13 95 (4.52%) Azure Service Bus
14 88 (4.19%) GitHub Actions
15 84 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
16 64 (3.05%) Amazon SQS
17 61 (2.90%) Azure AKS
18 55 (2.62%) Amazon EC2
19 53 (2.52%) Azure Monitor
20 50 (2.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.29%) Network Security
2 19 (0.90%) VPN
3 15 (0.71%) Broadband
3 15 (0.71%) DMARC
4 14 (0.67%) DNS
5 12 (0.57%) MQTT
6 11 (0.52%) AMQP
6 11 (0.52%) Firewall
6 11 (0.52%) TCP/IP
7 9 (0.43%) HTTP
8 7 (0.33%) Internet
9 6 (0.29%) BGP
9 6 (0.29%) Hyperconnected
10 5 (0.24%) RFID
11 3 (0.14%) LTE
11 3 (0.14%) NAS
11 3 (0.14%) SAN
11 3 (0.14%) SSL
12 2 (0.095%) DHCP
12 2 (0.095%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 321 (15.28%) MongoDB
2 249 (11.85%) PostgreSQL
3 209 (9.95%) NoSQL
4 167 (7.95%) Azure SQL Database
5 151 (7.19%) Elasticsearch
6 120 (5.71%) MySQL
7 106 (5.05%) SQL Server
8 87 (4.14%) Relational Database
9 75 (3.57%) Redis
10 52 (2.48%) DynamoDB
11 49 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
12 29 (1.38%) Big Data
13 22 (1.05%) Pinecone
14 21 (1.00%) Data Lake
15 15 (0.71%) Chroma
16 13 (0.62%) RDBMS
17 12 (0.57%) DTS
18 10 (0.48%) Db2
18 10 (0.48%) Metadata
19 9 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 293 (13.95%) Git
2 205 (9.76%) GitLab
3 166 (7.90%) Jenkins
4 79 (3.76%) TeamCity
5 71 (3.38%) JUnit
6 57 (2.71%) Cucumber
7 56 (2.67%) JIRA
8 43 (2.05%) Mockito
9 39 (1.86%) Cypress.io
10 37 (1.76%) Maven
11 32 (1.52%) Claude Code
12 28 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 22 (1.05%) Selenium
14 17 (0.81%) REST Assured
14 17 (0.81%) Spock
15 15 (0.71%) Postman
16 14 (0.67%) JMeter
17 13 (0.62%) SonarQube
17 13 (0.62%) Vite
18 8 (0.38%) Bitbucket
General
1 532 (25.32%) Finance
2 442 (21.04%) Social Skills
3 240 (11.42%) Public Sector
4 210 (10.00%) Banking
5 177 (8.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 157 (7.47%) Law
7 149 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
8 144 (6.85%) Retail
9 99 (4.71%) Financial Institution
10 85 (4.05%) Legal
11 75 (3.57%) Back Office
12 59 (2.81%) Marketing
13 47 (2.24%) Aerospace
14 35 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
15 31 (1.48%) Games
16 28 (1.33%) Legal Technology
17 18 (0.86%) Front Office
18 14 (0.67%) Advertising
19 12 (0.57%) Manufacturing
20 11 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 750 (35.70%) Developer
2 525 (24.99%) Senior
3 382 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 364 (17.33%) Lead
5 313 (14.90%) Architect
6 203 (9.66%) Senior Developer
7 190 (9.04%) .NET Developer
8 167 (7.95%) Java Developer
9 165 (7.85%) Full-Stack Developer
10 143 (6.81%) Java Engineer
11 134 (6.38%) Senior Software Engineer
12 128 (6.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 106 (5.05%) Solutions Architect
14 105 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
15 85 (4.05%) Lead Software Engineer
16 77 (3.66%) DevOps Engineer
17 70 (3.33%) Software Developer
18 65 (3.09%) Lead Developer
19 64 (3.05%) Technical Leader
20 63 (3.00%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 529 (25.18%) .NET
2 454 (21.61%) React
3 422 (20.09%) Node.js
4 419 (19.94%) Terraform
5 413 (19.66%) Spring
6 379 (18.04%) Spring Boot
7 312 (14.85%) RESTful
8 298 (14.18%) Kafka
9 297 (14.14%) REST
10 237 (11.28%) ASP.NET
11 230 (10.95%) AngularJS
12 219 (10.42%) .NET Core
13 197 (9.38%) Vue
14 192 (9.14%) ASP.NET Core
15 125 (5.95%) Blazor
16 102 (4.85%) ASP.NET Web API
17 87 (4.14%) HTML
18 85 (4.05%) .NET Framework
19 84 (4.00%) CSS
20 80 (3.81%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 714 (33.98%) Cloud Native
2 396 (18.85%) Distributed Systems
3 172 (8.19%) Product Ownership
4 133 (6.33%) Enterprise Software
5 100 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
6 84 (4.00%) Onboarding
7 66 (3.14%) AI Agents
7 66 (3.14%) Public Cloud
8 51 (2.43%) Virtual Team
9 48 (2.28%) e-Learning
10 46 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
11 44 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
12 31 (1.48%) Management Information System
13 23 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
14 22 (1.05%) Blog
15 21 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
15 21 (1.00%) Mainframe
15 21 (1.00%) Private Cloud
16 19 (0.90%) Algorithms
16 19 (0.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 149 (7.09%) Linux
2 47 (2.24%) Windows
3 33 (1.57%) CentOS
3 33 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (1.00%) Unix
5 10 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.38%) Android
6 8 (0.38%) Debian
6 8 (0.38%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.38%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.33%) AIX
8 4 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,173 (55.83%) CI/CD
2 1,023 (48.69%) Agile
3 770 (36.65%) Software Engineering
4 742 (35.32%) DevOps
5 565 (26.89%) Mentoring
6 562 (26.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 501 (23.85%) Event-Driven
8 480 (22.85%) AI
9 457 (21.75%) Test Automation
10 446 (21.23%) Infrastructure as Code
11 422 (20.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 412 (19.61%) Containerisation
13 385 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
14 337 (16.04%) Technical Leadership
15 313 (14.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 295 (14.04%) Scrum
17 276 (13.14%) Observability
18 265 (12.61%) Architectural Patterns
19 237 (11.28%) TDD
20 233 (11.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 795 (37.84%) Java
2 571 (27.18%) C#
3 506 (24.08%) SQL
4 444 (21.13%) JavaScript
5 414 (19.70%) Python
6 406 (19.32%) TypeScript
7 86 (4.09%) Go
8 55 (2.62%) Ruby
9 40 (1.90%) C++
10 35 (1.67%) Bash
11 33 (1.57%) PHP
12 29 (1.38%) Bicep
13 27 (1.29%) Kotlin
14 24 (1.14%) PowerShell
15 20 (0.95%) Rust
16 16 (0.76%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.62%) Scala
18 12 (0.57%) Groovy
19 11 (0.52%) Shell Script
20 10 (0.48%) RPG
Qualifications
1 359 (17.09%) Security Cleared
2 250 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 162 (7.71%) Degree
4 107 (5.09%) DV Cleared
5 87 (4.14%) AWS Certification
6 83 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 62 (2.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 38 (1.81%) CISSP
9 35 (1.67%) Azure Certification
10 25 (1.19%) CISM
11 18 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
11 18 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (0.71%) Master's Degree
13 10 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (0.48%) MBA
14 9 (0.43%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 8 (0.38%) CCSP
16 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 220 (10.47%) QA
2 100 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 41 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 38 (1.81%) WCAG
5 26 (1.24%) GDPR
5 26 (1.24%) NIST
6 19 (0.90%) Data Quality
7 17 (0.81%) NCSC
7 17 (0.81%) PCI DSS
8 15 (0.71%) SOC 2
9 10 (0.48%) ISO 20022
10 8 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.38%) GRC
10 8 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 6 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
12 5 (0.24%) PSD2
13 4 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.14%) SEPA
14 3 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 606 (28.84%) Docker
2 41 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.48%) NDS
4 8 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.14%) KVM
8 2 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.048%) Firmware
9 1 (0.048%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 685 (32.60%) Kubernetes
2 127 (6.04%) Grafana
3 97 (4.62%) Ansible
4 51 (2.43%) Prometheus
5 28 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
6 27 (1.29%) Argo
7 22 (1.05%) Puppet
8 14 (0.67%) Cilium
8 14 (0.67%) Kibana
9 6 (0.29%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.24%) Podman
11 4 (0.19%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.14%) Kubeflow
12 3 (0.14%) Rancher
13 2 (0.095%) logstash
13 2 (0.095%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.048%) Cisco CUCM
14 1 (0.048%) Consul
14 1 (0.048%) Control-M
14 1 (0.048%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 343 (16.33%) Microsoft
2 103 (4.90%) Google
3 69 (3.28%) Oracle
4 55 (2.62%) Splunk
5 52 (2.48%) OpenAI
6 31 (1.48%) Dynatrace
7 29 (1.38%) Okta
8 27 (1.29%) ForgeRock
9 24 (1.14%) Databricks
10 19 (0.90%) Mistral
11 18 (0.86%) OneLogin
12 17 (0.81%) IBM
13 16 (0.76%) SAP
14 15 (0.71%) AppDynamics
14 15 (0.71%) SendGrid
15 14 (0.67%) Adobe
15 14 (0.67%) OpenText
16 13 (0.62%) CyberArk
17 12 (0.57%) Red Hat
17 12 (0.57%) Salesforce